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The treatment of protozoal infections in children
BMJ - Archives of Diseases in Childhood, 04/14/09

Escobedo AE et al. - Most of them may cause acute or chronic diarrhoea in healthy individuals and may result in intractable, life-threatening illness in patients with immunosuppressive diseases, like acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. Due to the lack of vaccines to avoid these infections, adequate identification and treatment of these infections may result in significant benefit for individual patients and public health. This article presents an update on the current most important points of pharmacotherapy available at present against amoebiasis, balantidiasis, giardiasis, dientamoebiasis, Blastocystis hominis infection, cryptoporidiosis, cyclosporiasis, isosporiasis, sarcocystosis, and microporidiosis.

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